Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1887-09-09
CLIPPINGS.

CLIPPINGS.
Our young legal friend of Kinks
vile, w. ID. Oldham, was in the
city yesterday on legal business
Home Press.
Miss Griffin's performance was
something entirely new to Mem.
phis audience. All were astonish-
ed at her wonderful transforma-
tions.-Memphis Tenn. Reyeile.
A shooting scrape occurred in
the south part of this county, neal
Callao, on Saturday, at picnic.
1t seemed to be a promiscuous
shooting business in which sever
al took hand, and it is reported
as pass-time shooting. A young
man by the name of Luther Bran
mer was fatally shot, and died
Sunday. What the evidence will
develop we do not know.-Home
Press.
John Holmes received very seri-
GUS injuries last Monday, while
working on the Santa Fe. He
was working around scaffold
which was not sufficiently safe, and
it fell upon him, bruising his head
fearfully, and otherwise injuring
him. The wonder is that it did
not kill him instantly. He is
confined to his home, and is not
liable to be out for some time, yet
it is hoped he will recover entire
ly.-Home Press.
A little seven year old son of
Mr.. Lorezo Smith, who lives some
SIX miles north-we of this place
was run over and kicked on the
head by horse on last Thursday.
DIR. Wlseman was called who
found the skull broken in and a
portion of the brain exuding. The
skull was raised and the wound
carefully dressed but the injury is
a serious one and time alone can
decide the result.-Brashear Citi-
zen.
A Mr.. Frost living north of
town, got three fingers on his right
hand amputated one day last week
as quick as wink. He had tied
his horse to a bush by halter,
and the horse having walked
around the bush until his nose
was wrapped up to it, Mr.. Frost
undertook to get him loose, and
placed his fingers between the hal
ter and bush, when the morse gave
a quick jerk, and Mr.. Frost's fing-
ers disappeared and have not been
seen since-Greencastle Independ.
ent.
A farmer named Evans, living
IN the northeast part of Linn Co..
shot his own son by mistake the
fore part of this week. His neigh
bor's hogs had been getting into
his corn-field and he was determin-
ed to put an end to it by shooting
them. His son had been sent out
to drive them from the field and
while STOPPING over, stopping a
hole, where the tall grass grew,
his father mistook him for a hog
and shot him. The boy is in |
critical condition and the father is
almost distracted. -ChiIlicothe |
Tribune.
Those of our people who
thought it better to '.leave well |
enough alone" and rejected the
golden opportunities offered by
the railroad corporations in Kan
sas, are the better satisfied with
their present condition since it is
a daily occurrence for from seven
5y-fve to hundred wagons loaded
with half-starved citizens to pull
out OF Kansas for their former
homes in Missouri and Illinois. In
nan, cases they leave mortgaged
property which they are unable to
'edeem. How different is the re-
port given to his home paper by a
9ennsylvanian after years resi-
ience In this State, in which he
'ays: Missouri is greater and
more prosperous State to-day than
'ver before. She has more rail-
Dads, finer cities, more school
louses and prettier women than
ver dotted the same number of !
quare miles since the tears of
light first kissed the flowers in {
tden's garden. Canton Press. 5